Anti-piracy group goes after Pirate Bay proxies

A Hollywood supported anti-piracy group called BREIN is trying to shut down the huge number of Pirate Bay proxy sites that popped up when access to The Pirate Bay was blocked in the Netherlands. The group has had some success against at least one proxy and is threatening legal action against others.

Anti-piracy group BREIN is clearly not happy about these proxy sites because they essentially make the original court order useless. In an effort to fight the proxy sites BREIN went to the Court of Hague for an injunction against tpb.dehomies.nl. The injunction orders the owner of the site to shut down or deal with a fine of 1000 euros per day.

All of these sites were contacted via a letter by BREIN in which legal action was threatened if they did not take their sites offline. It seems the threat of being sued by a huge group of US movie studios is scary enough to make the proxy owners comply.

BREIN directory Tim Kuik gave a comment to Tweakers where he said, “These sites deliberately offer a service to circumvent a court injunction. If they do not comply, we will hold them liable for damages.”

Seeing as how easy it is to set up a proxy site I can’t imagine BREIN will be successful in this fight for very long. The Pirate Bay commented to Torrent Freak that for every one proxy that goes offline, many more will pop up in its place. They also feel that BREIN’s efforts are actually providing them with assistance.

*cough* *cough* b**^t.... ie MPAA/RIAA aka Dodd there no such anti-piracy group and never was... if there was we would've heard about them long ago. Nice tray MPAA/RIAA/Dodd you might want to do better.....

Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bescherming_Rechten_Entertainment_Industrie_Nederland

Criticism

In September 2009 BREIN CEO Tim Kuik attracted controversy when in a news conference he stated he's currently using a laptop confiscated from a "pirate" and given to him by someone involved with the case.[9]
BREIN attracted controversy again when several suspicious aspects of their lawsuit against The Pirate Bay and Reservella were revealed, including evidence that documents used to link Fredrik Neij of The Pirate Bay to Reservella were faked.[10][11] Peter Sunde and the Dutch Pirate Party filed criminal felony charges against both Tim Kuik and BREIN for fraud and forgery.
In January 2011, Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN targeted one of the Internet’s largest warez piracy topsites. The site, known as Swan, was taken down by hosting provider WorldStream and without judicial process BREIN seized its servers. The owners of the servers retaliated by seizing them back and may sue BREIN for breach of privacy and property rights as BREIN is a private organization and has no special legal or investigative authority.[12]